A crystal ball?

摘要

The Log does not attempt to be topical - there are other Association devices for that. Our copy deadline is eight weeks before the magazine drops on doormats, although there is an opportunity for some later 'tweaking'. So, the duty editors for the spring edition must have consulted a crystal ball at the end of January to get out three topics that were still so relevant two months later. COVID-19 was then just a little flu problem in an obscure part of China. As the editors went through the production schedule, the whole nightmare developed. With extraordinary foresight, they chose 'Support network' as the cover story and included an article entitled 'Where is aviation going?', plus a piece on volcanic ash and aviation - 10 years after that crazily named Icelandic volcano closed much of the northern hemisphere's airspace. What remarkable foresight to be so relevant to 'locked down' Log readers.